{"id":15047,"date":"2014-06-19T06:00:56","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T13:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/creativemarket.com\/blog\/?p=15047"},"modified":"2024-03-28T05:11:10","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T12:11:10","slug":"what-is-wordpress-meet-the-platform-that-powers-over-20-of-the-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/creativemarket.com\/blog\/what-is-wordpress-meet-the-platform-that-powers-over-20-of-the-web","title":{"rendered":"What Is WordPress? Meet the Platform That Powers Over 20% of the Web"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is WordPress?<\/p>\n

is a series that will introduce complete beginners to the wonderful world of WordPress. We’ll start at the very beginning and explain everything you need to know about the web’s favorite platform.
\nThis first article will introduce you to WordPress and discuss what you do and don’t need to know to use it. Future articles will walk you through everything from choosing between WordPress.com and WordPress.org to installing themes and adding plugins.\n<\/p>\n

<\/span>The Question of The Day<\/span><\/h2>\n

\nSo what is WordPress? It’s a simple question with a potentially complicated answer. At its core, WordPress is software that is used to make websites. And not just a few websites mind you, something like 21% of all websites. That’s a staggering number! Whether or not you have any clue as to what WordPress is, odds are, you’ve seen sites that use it countless times and didn’t even know it.
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\nMuch like ogres, all websites have several layers. There’s the layer that everyone sees when browsing the web (the pretty one), then there’s a hidden layer: the code that makes those sites work. WordPress operates on that hidden layer, and creates a middle layer by giving you a graphical user interface like the one above to create and manage content.
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\nNormally, making changes to a website requires manually changing the code, but WordPress automates many of these tasks and makes it super simple to add or change things. So rather than coding up a new webpage every time you want a new blog post, you just type one into WordPress like you would in a word processor, hit publish, and you’re done.\n<\/p>\n

<\/span>Breaking It Down<\/span><\/h3>\n

\n“Software that is used to make websites” is a nice answer, but there’s a lot more to it than that. To round out this concept quickly, here are a few points about WordPress that you should know:\n<\/p>\n